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Roderick Mayne Thorp Jr. (September 1, 1936 – April 28, 1999) was an American novelist specializing mainly in police procedural/crime novels. His novel The Detective was adapted into a film of the same name in 1968.
Roderick Thorp. Writer: Die Hard. Novelist, short-story writer, teacher -- and private detective. He wrote two novels that would be turned into theatrical films, "The Detective" (1966), which became The Detective (1968); and "Nothing Lasts Forever" (1979), which became Die Hard (1988).
Nothing Lasts Forever is a 1979 action thriller novel by American author Roderick Thorp, a sequel to his 1966 novel The Detective. The novel is mostly known through its 1988 film adaptation Die Hard , starring Bruce Willis .
Roderick Thorp is a thriller and mystery fiction author that was born in the Bronx on September 1936. He attended City College of New York which is where he began writing. It was at this time that he would become the winner of the Theodore Goodman Short Story Award.
May 4, 1999 · Roderick Thorp, a former private investigator whose best-selling crime novels became successful films, was found dead on Wednesday at his home in Oxnard, Calif. He was 62.
Roderick Thorp. Writer: Die Hard. Novelist, short-story writer, teacher -- and private detective. He wrote two novels that would be turned into theatrical films, "The Detective" (1966), which became The Detective (1968); and "Nothing Lasts Forever" (1979), which became Die Hard (1988).
Jan 1, 2001 · Roderick Thorp. 3.50. 2,814 ratings449 reviews. This bestseller was the basis for the blockbuster film Die Hard starring Bruce Willis. High atop a Los Angeles skyscraper, an office Christmas party turns into a deadly cage-match between a lone New York City cop and a gang of international terrorists.
